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How The Digg Editorial Process Differs From Search Engine Editorial Process
Todd Malicoat has a write up called The Search Marketer’s Guide to Digg, where he explains the difference between the Digg.com editorial process and search engines editorial process.…
Google’s Blogspot.com Down, Blogger Content Inaccessible
It seems like most of the morning, Google’s Blogspot service that hosts Blogger blogs has been down. For example, I have been…
Url.com – Results Ranked By Users
The ability to rank or rate results delivered by search engines is slowly becoming more commonplace, and I’m noticing that one or…
Digg To Change System To Stem Gaming; Top Digger Quits
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, wrote that the Digg.com algorithm for ranking top stories on the home page and other category pages…
New Engine ‘ChaCha’ Offers Real-Time Answers From Live ‘Guides’
Part Wikipedia, part Yahoo Answers and part About.com, ChaCha is a new search engine with a compelling hook – real-time results from…
Understanding Digg.com
Valleywag has an excellent Cheatsheet on What is Digg? Basically, if someone asks you what is Digg, just send them there. It…
So Long Daypop & Blogdex
Back in 2003, I wrote about a number of blog search engines emerging at that time. Feedster was brand new and Technorati…
Chinese Government Opens Up Blogger Again
CIO reports that after three years, the Chinese government has opened up access to Google’s Blogger. Why did they reopen access? Well,…
Powerful Search + Social Bookmarking = Diigo
Social bookmarking and search services have been exploding in popularity recently, but I’ve yet to find one that combined ease of use…
Lunch with Pheedo
I had lunch today with Bill Flitter, founder and VP marketing of RSS ad network Pheedo.com. Walking up to the restaurant, I…
A Podcasting Paradigm
Last time I learned a new language, there wasn’t an Internet. Now that I’ve started Japanese, I’m finding a wealth of online…
Comcast’s CGM Nightmare
The newly-empowered consumer is, of course, taking every opportunity to cheer, and boo, the companies they deal with every day. The latest…
WPP’s GroupM Buys WOM Firm
Word of mouth firm M80, based in L.A., has been snatched up by WPP’s GroupM. The eight-year-old agency “activates word-of-mouth among online…
Web Video Comes to TiVo: Ad Opportunities
I just spoke with TiVo’s SVP of Programming, Tara Maitra, about the company’s new TiVoCast broadband-to-TV offering and what sorts of ad…
WOMMA Names First Elected Board
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) has named its first elected board of directors. WOMMA’s new directors are: * Idil Cakim,…
del.icio.us Adds Most Popular Links On Home Page
del.icio.us announced that they have made the del.icio.us popular page more visible by adding the content of the page, in the form…
CNET Ups its Podcast Count
CNET has a number of regular podcasts on its new CNET Podcast Central site. The whole course of shows is sponsored by…
Duct Tape Podcast: All Duct Tape, All the Time
And you thought you knew duct tape. Henkel Consumer Adhesives is relaunching “Tape Talk,” a podcast dedicated to all things duct tape.…
del.icio.us Adds Inline Editing
The del.icio.us blog announced that they have added a few more features, including inline bookmark editing and prettier URLs. The changes enable…
Tech Memeorandum Gets New Name: Techmeme
Memeorandium’s tech page has been on my essential reading list since it launched almost two years ago. About the only downside has…
Searching for Quality RSS Feeds
RSS feeds offer a great way to pull relevant content from blogs, news sites and many other sources, but good ones can…
Sphere Blog Search Launches
TechCrunch has an outstanding review of a new blog search engine that recently launched named Sphere. What stands Sphere apart from the…
Your Network Added To del.icio.us – Yahoo My Web Like Features
del.icio.us announced a new feature they call “your network.” You network lets you keep track of your friends most recent bookmarks. You…
User Reviews Platform Gets Metrics
Word of mouth enabler Bazaarvoice has partnered with Coremetrics, Omniture, WebSideStory and WebTrends to offer its merchants deeper measurement of its user…
Cuban’s IceRocket Sold To Think Partnership
Cuban Sells Blog Search Engine from Red Herring covers marketing firm Think Partnership planning to purchase the IceRocket blog search engine, which…
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